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CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description
of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk
mischief. This theme is repea...
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PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a
change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made
of an obviously corrupt stanza.
Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wo...
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MISCHIEVOUS PERSON. a genius at plots. Hebrew. _zimmah_. plots. Not
the same word as in Proverbs 24:2 and Proverbs 24:16....
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_shall be called_ Lit. _they_(men) _shall call_him. However secretly
he works (comp. Psalms 64:6 [Hebrews 7]), his true character shall be
found out, and his reputation shall accord with it....
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CHAPTER 24
TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12
1.
Be not thou envious against evil men;
Neither desire to be with them:
2.
For their heart studieth oppression,
And their lips talk of mischief.
3.
Through wi...
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He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
HE THAT DEVISETH TO DO EVIL (INVENTING NEW OATHS, FRAUDS, INCENTIVES
TO SIN, ) SHALL BE CALLED A MISCHIEVOUS PERSON - Hebrew, 'a m...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2 They make cruel plans in their minds.
And they discuss how to cause trouble...
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מְחַשֵּׁ֥ב לְ הָרֵ֑עַ לֹ֝֗ו בַּֽעַל
־מְזִמֹּ֥ות יִקְרָֽאוּ׃...
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CHAPTER 25
FORGIVING
"Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not
with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to hi...
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Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil
companionships, against excess in passion, against all false
exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest
endeavor to...
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
follow...
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HE THAT DEVISETH TO DO EVIL SHALL BE CALLED A MISCHIEVOUS PERSON] To
do evil is natural to men, all are prone to it; being conceived and
born in sin, and, from the womb, more or less commit it: but fo...
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He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Ver. 8. _Shall be called a mischievous person._] Heb., A master of
sinful musings, an artist at any evil. Josephus saith of Antipater...
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_He that deviseth, &c., shall be called mischievous_ Hebrew, בעל
מזמות, _a master of crafts or mischiefs._ Though he cover his
wicked devices with fair pretences, and wishes to be better esteemed,
he...
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V. 8. HE THAT DEVISETH TO DO EVIL, with whom mischief and wrong is
self-evident, who is the master of wickedness, SHALL BE CALLED A
MISCHIEVOUS PERSON, his evil reputation will soon be well establishe...
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Heb. _a master of mischief_. The sense is, Though he cover his wicked
devices with fair pretences, and would be better esteemed, yet he
shall be noted and branded with that infamy which is due to him....
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Proverbs 24:8 plots H2803 (H8764) evil H7489 (H8687) called H7121
(H8799) schemer H4209 H1167
Proverbs 24:2, Proverbs 24:9, Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 6:18, Proverbs 1
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do
as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
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Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts
occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the
wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; their pros...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 24:7. WISDOM IS TOO HIGH, etc. Delitzsch here reads, _Wisdom
seems to the fool to be an ornamental commodity_, and thinks “the
comparison lies in the rarity, costliness, and...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 24:1
We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU
ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar
warning is given, and comp. Proverbs 23:1...
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Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in
couplets or in phrases.
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For
their heart studies destruction, and their...
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1 Kings 2:44; Ezekiel 38:10; Ezekiel 38:11; Isaiah 10:7; Isaiah 32:7;
Nahum 1:11; Proverbs 14:22; Proverbs 24:2; Proverbs 24:9; Proverbs 6:
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Shall be called — Though he cover his wicked devices with fair
pretences, he shall be branded with that infamy which is due to him....